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Frans Hals Museum
The official website of the Frans Hals Museum, features facts and works by sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Dutch painters, including portraits, still-lifes, genre paintings, and landscapes. The collection, however, focuses on the work...
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Business, Making of African American Identity: V. 2
A painting and an appeal that explore the role business played in black uplift in nineteenth-century America. This resource focuses on the work of Edward Bannister (1828-1901), one of the leading black painters of the nineteenth century.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Progress: The Meaning of the Machine: Human Machines
An excerpt from efficiency expert Frederick Winslow Taylor's The Principles of Scientific Management that describes how to make a human work like a machine; painter Thomas Anshutz's The Ironworkers' Noontime that suggests the cost of...
BBC
Bbc: Simon Schama's Power of Art: Picasso
From the BBC's documentary series on art "Simon Schama's Power of Art", this is the web-page synopsis version of the program on the Spanish master modernist painter Pablo Picasso.
ibiblio
Ibiblio: Web Museum: Sisley, Alfred
Overview of impressionist French painter, Alfred Sisley. Links to fellow impressionist, Edouard Manet, Pissarro, Renoir, Monet, and Bazille. A gallery of his work is included with selected insights. Great links are provided to...
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Ibiblio: Web Museum: Henri Matisse (Biographie en Francais)
A biography of twentieth-century French painter Henri Matisse.
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Ibiblio: Web Museum: Raphael
Detailed biography on the famous Italian painter Raphael who lived during the high Italian Renaissance. Discusses his influences by other artists, his works, and links to images of them.
Art Cyclopedia
Artcyclopedia: Artists by Movement: Post Impressionism
Artcyclopedia provides a list of post-impressionist painters. Click on a name to see a list of links to galleries and museums with the artist's work.
ibiblio
Ibiblio: Web Museum: Caspar David Friedrich
Biography of German Romantic painter Caspar Friedrich, including pictures of some of his paintings.
Art Cyclopedia
Artcyclopedia: Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze
This is a wonderful comprehensive resource for German-born American painter, Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze. Explore the hyperlinks to Leutze's most important works with images, biographies, articles on the artist, and other sites related to...
Bibliomania
Bibliomania: Dante Gabriel Rossetti Poetry
Full text of the poem "The Blessed Damozel" by the pre-Raphaelite poet and painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882).
Rice University
Northern Renaissance: Its in the Details
This website provides an outline that contains stylistic differences between Northern Renaissance painters and their Italian counterparts. Images are offered.
ArtLex
Art Lex: The Eight
Examples of work by a group of early Modernist painters known as "The Eight." Gives a brief history of the group.
ArtLex
Art Lex: Ashcan School
Many examples of work by the group of painters known as the "Ashcan School." Brief history of the group as well.
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Comission
Explore Pa History: George Catlin
A succinct biographical sketch that examines the contributions of noted painter of Native American portraits and Pennsylvania native, George Catlin.
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Comission
Explore Pa History: Horace Pippin
A concise biographical sketch that examines the contributions of African American painter and Pennsylvania native, Horace Pippin.
CGFA
Carol Gerten Fine Arts: Winslow Homer
Nice biography of the American Naturalist painter, Winslow Homer, known for his paintings, "The Croquet Game" and "Home,Sweet Home."
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Dissecting Botticelli's Adoration of the Magi
The scene of the three wise men offering gifts to a newborn Jesus was widely painted during the Renaissance era, so how did painter Sandro Botticelli create a version that's still well known today? James Earle describes who and what set...
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Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online: Borduas
This resource furnishes detailed biographical information on Canadian painter, Paul-Emile Borduas.
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University of the Arts, London: Paintings at Universal Leonardo
Find a collection of 25 paintings by Renaissance-era master painters, including more than a dozen of Leonardo's most famous works. Paintings are accompanied by links to explanations of the artistic problems and puzzles that fascinated...
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National Museum of Science and Technology: Leonardo
Leonardo da Vinci, famous Renaissance painter and inventor, is the subject of a special collection of resources maintained by the National Museum of Science and Technology in Milan, Italy. Includes a gallery of his work, his biography,...
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Nebraska Center for Writers: Weldon Kees
Weldon Kees (1914-1955?) was not only an important minor poet of the mid-20th century American literary scene, he was also a fiction writer, playwright, cultural critic and impresario, filmmaker and photographer, abstract expressionist...
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Columbus Museum of Art: Curator's View: Edward Hopper's "Morning Sun"
From the Curator's View series at the Columbus Museum of Art, this is the piece profile on the American social realist, modern painter, Edward Hopper's, painting "Morning Sun".
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Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online: Tom Thomson
Comprehensive biographical information on the life and works of Canadian landscape painter Tom Thomson, who drowned before he could become an official member of the Group of Seven.
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